Trimming-table.



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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS W. TALIA'FERRO, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

4TllMMlNG-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION formi-ng part of Letters Patent No. 692,732, dated February 4, 1902.

Application led August 22, 1901. Serial No. 72,918. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. TALIA- FERRO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county otDouglas and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trimming-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention is designed for the production of an improved trimming-table for hog-carcasses and the like, the object of the same being to provide a table of this kind which will obviate the .necessity for trucking the trimmings to be used in the manufacture ot' sausage-meat from the point where it is cut from the carcass to that whereit is further trimmed for sausage-meat. i

'My improved table comprises in its construction a stationary part and a rotary part, the stationary part being annular and the rotary part being located within the same and provided with a central opening, a iiat horizontal outer rim, and an inclined conical Wall between said opening and said rim.

The invention also consists in certain features and details of construction and combinations of parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 isa vertical central sectional View of a table constructed according to my invention, and Fg..2 is a plan view ot' the same. i

As above stated, the table is made up of an annular stationary part l and a rotary part 2, located Within the same. table has a flat horizontal upper surface and is designedfor the reception of the Yshoulder or other part of a hog-carcass'after it has been cut off by any suitable means. The same is supported upon the uprights or standards 3 and may be wider on one side, as shown at et, than on the other. The rotary part 2 of the table has a flat horizontal outer rim 5, which is circular in form and overlaps the upper edge of the stationary part l. It is also provided with an inclined .conical wall 6 and with a central opening 7. A funnel-mouthed passage 7 leads from the inclined Wall 6 to the opening 7. The said rotary part is supported upon a series of tapering rollers 8, which are mounted in suitable bearings in Vpart 1 of the table.

trimmed, and the trimmings removed there- The part l ot the the uprights 9 and receive a bearing-ring 1-0 on the under side ot' the rim 5. the bearing-ring 10 a belt-groove 11 is formed on the rim 5 of the rotary part 2 for the reception of a driving-belt- 12. The said belt may be driven for the purpose of turning the part 2 by anysuitable means. I have shown on the under side ofthe rim' 5 a series of parallel annular plates, whose inner edges arein line with each other and the outer edge of the lower of saidplates projecting beyond the outer edge of the next plate above it to form the groove ll. This, however, is a mere detail of construction.

In operation the hog-carcass is first cut, chopped, or sawed up to remove the shouldersthererom, and the shoulders are delivered upon the Wide portion 4 of the stationary Here said shoulders are from are delivered upon the rim 5 of the rot-ary part 2. As said rotary part is constantly tu rning, said trimmings are conveyed thereby to operators standing along the narrow portion of the stationary part l of the table opposite the wide portion. Here said'trimmings are further trimmed to remove the fat from the sausage-meat, and the fat may be delivered into one truck and the sausage-meat into another to be conveyed to the proper points of distribution. In lieu of this either the fat or the sausage-meat may be discharged through the central opening 7 in the rotary part 2 of the table upon a truck located beneath said opening. The said opening 7 may, however, be dispensed with altogether; but it is essential that the inclined conical wall 6 be employed for au obvious purpose.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Atrimming-table comprising an annular stationary part and a rotary part Within the same, the said rotary partv having a central opening therein, an outer rim and an inclined conical wall between. said opening and said rim.

2. Atri mining-table comprising an annular stationary part and a rotary part within the same, the said rotary part having a central opening therein, an outer rim, an inclined Just above IOO conical Wall adjacent to said rim, and a funnel-mouthed passage leading to said opening.

3. A trimming-table comprising an annular stationary part and a rotary part located Within the same, the said rotary part having an outer rim, an inclined Wall adjacent to said rim, a belt-groove on the under side of said rim and a bearing-ring, a driving-belt fitting Within said groove, and a series of rollers on which said ring bears, as and for the purpose Io set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wt- DGSSQS.

THOMAS W. TALIAFERRO. Witnesses:

M; L. SEARS, WV. H. CLARKE. 

